The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( 11 ) h he moved, who cannot be contained in a Place* 720 not i7i the whole World \ who was before the World had a being: how then fhould he either fpeak or appear to any one, or prefent him]elf in a little Parcel of the Earth ? therefore neither Abraham, nor Ifaac, nor any other Men Jaw the 'Father, and inexpref- fible Lord oj all ^Things entirely, and of Christ htmfelf but o?ily him, who is by his Will a God, being his Son arid a Mef- fenger, tn that he waits upon his Pleafure \ whom he would have to be born a Man by the Virgin, who was alfo fometimes made Fire in his Conference with Mofes out of the Bufh: otherwife, if we do not thus under(land the Scriptures, it will happen that the Father, and Lord of the Univerfe was not then in Heaven, when it was faid by Moses, the Lord rained upon Sodom Fire and Brimftone from the Lord out of Heaven. r IP hen Pis Jaidy the Lord rained down Fire from the Lord out of Heaven, the prophetick Word intimates two in Number, the One be¬ ing on the Earth, whom he affirms to have de¬ fended to fee the Cry of Sodom, the Other abiding in Heaven^ who is Lord even of the Lord upon the Earth, as being the Father, and God and Author to him both of his Ex- ijtencey and of his being powerful, and Lord, and God. So far St. Juft in. This is fufficient to make the Readers fenfible what Opinion our Martyr had of Jesus](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
